A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Science fiction spent decades inventing exotic worlds, and then real space showed up and proved it can do way worse. Telescopes keep spotting planets warped by the gravity of dead stars, worlds with ...
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Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...
Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...
Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...